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is a platform for parametric design in graphic design. It documents the work of students and teachers at the Department of Design at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), who are investigating the significance of the system as a conceptual model and design method under the title “Parametric Design in Graphic Design.”

Design is less about intuitive, even ingenious “strokes of genius” and more about a holistic and rule-based (systemic and systematic) process of gaining knowledge and shaping form. It is becoming increasingly important to be able to design dynamic systems that both guide and inspire the design process.

Parametric design refers to this design in and of systems—with rules, their modes of operation, and systematic manipulability. The research project, led by Prof. Heike Grebin, is an integral part of teaching and aims to raise awareness of design as a performative process.

Play the System brings together selected study projects in which the system plays an important role as a design method – whether analog or digital. The works are created in a fruitful symbiosis of theory, design, and technology. Socially relevant issues and positions from philosophy, art, and avant-garde design from around 1900 to the present day are repeatedly discussed.

Play the System is an invitation to become aware of the systemic competence of graphic design and to gain the maturity to use the tools of digital design critically.

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pb11 The F*Toolkit

Authors

Alena Grönwoldt Cortes Emma Schmalisch Enka Springub Jana Konrad Jan Michaelsen Julia Biedasiek Julia Reinhardt Justice Hirsch Kaja Wetzel Lotte Lange Marike Sauvant Mona Hallweger Salya Fink Saskia Hess Schima Köchermann Tabea Mertens Valeria Mendez Moreno Valeria Schriber Zoe Rygus

Term

2023

Course

c3 Annoying—Toolkit

Supervision

Book details

Editorial staff: Heike Grebin (ed.), student team “Annoying Toolkit”
Design: Student team “Annoying Toolkit”
Printing: Dürmeyer, Hamburg
Box with 6 booklets, 18 × 24 cm
40 copies for study purposes
HAW Hamburg 2023

The F*Toolkit brings together the publications created by students throughout the semester. To further develop their design skills, it is essential for the students to understand and be able to effectively use the tools available to them. The students explored the methods of other designers and translated their insights into publications for print and web.
The zine The F*Toolkit documents the methodological structure of the combined design and lab-based courses. A series of workshops that were held throughout the semester are conceptually expanded upon within the resulting publications.